If you're losing the battle against a persistent bad habit, an addiction, or a temptation, and you're stuck in a repeating cycle of good intention-failure-guilt, you will not get better on your own. You need the help of other people. Some temptations are only overcome with the help of a partner who prays for you, encourages you, and holds you accountable.

Lasting love extends grace. No relationship will make it without grace. The Bible tells us that this is part of love. You're not going to have a relationship unless you have forgiveness, mercy, patience, acceptance, grace. You've got to cut people some slack.

The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.

A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

You can't grow strong without resistance.

Your spiritual gifts were not given for your own benefit but for the benefit of others, just as other people were given gifts for your benefit.